Re: is alpha jensen support dead?

From: Matt Turner
Date: Mon May 22 2017 - 01:33:56 EST


On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it seems like the Alpha Jense build (the only one using pci-noop.c)
> and thus being a different build than all the later PCI capable
> system has been broken since at least:
>
> commit 6aca0503847f6329460b15b3ab2b0e30bb752793
> Author: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Feb 2 21:46:33 2016 -0800
>
> alpha/dma: use common noop dma ops
>
> which switches pci-noop.c to use generic code, but fat fingered a symbol
> and didn't wire up the Kconfig.
>
> Is there any value in keeping it alive? Especially as there probably
> isn't any build coverage..
>
> Btw, how well is alpha working these days? It looks like there hasn't
> been any maintainer activity for about two years.

I haven't had time for alpha stuff in quite a while.

I've never even had a Jensen, so it's never been important to me personally.
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